Word: kosher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kosher Revival...
...main objection to your article is that it casts a false implication on the Jew who does not keep a kosher home. Too many Jewish housewives today literally keep their houses kosher but their stomachs unkosher, or tref. It is quite possible to be a good Jew and at the same time not keep a kosher home...
...operatic spoof called Apollo and Persephone, staged by the adventurous After Dinner Opera Company. Gayest of the week's premieres, it was written and composed by 40-year-old English Composer Gerald Cockshott (pronounced kosher), who originally dreamed up his libretto for his mentor, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but liked it so much that he set it to music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked...
This drives the kosher butcher crazy sometimes, but he respects the housewife who demands the best." Last week's Chicago prices for a rib roast: A. & P.-55? a lb., kosher...
...original reasons for the dietary laws were probably partly hygienic, but another end is to keep Jews as a group apart, prevent intermarriage with non-Jews. Today's kosher revival may have other origins. As young Mrs. Tresley explains it: "People are looking for something to believe in, something to hang on to. They don't want a wishy-washy life; they want something concrete...